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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
1
The last monthly report of the Silver Lake Schools covers activities and the honor roll for the month ending April 18, 1902. Details include student recognitions, school events, and enrollment figures for the period.
Report shows 15 male pupils and 24 female pupils enrolled. Time lost by tardiness amounts to 15 minutes and 15 days by absence. Average daily attendance is 35 percent of total, with 98 percent attendance recorded.
The document lists students achieving honor status in two cohorts. Seventh Year honorees: Roy Burdge Ruth Dorsey Jessie Ferree Opal Kerlin Lulu Sprigg Kenneth Baker Everett Shipley. Eighth Year honorees: Ruth Bart Chloe Haney Faun Kerlin Gladys Henderson Mina Leonard Dale Homman Nellie McClure.
A readable OCR fragment lists students across three years with multiple names. First Year includes Guy Akers Marie Roger Klossy Yates Gladys Wiltrout Ruth Till Edward Hay. Second Year shows Velma Sprigg Iva Mchrill Reth Friend Bessie Snyder Neva Homman Cloire Paulus Ethel Skinner Frank Robertson Elsie Cook Blanche Ayers Wille Wedrick. Third Year presents Natel McKrill Ethel Yates tuth Armey Lloyd Owens Charley Haney Foss Slawley Keith Yotter Mable Haney.
The report lists pupil counts by gender with ten males and nineteen females. It records eight withdrawals and fifteen minutes lost to tardiness. Absences total 504 days. Average daily attendance is 24 with a 90 percent attendance rate.
Names listed include Roxa Little, ninth year, eleventh year, Anna Jaques, Ruth Babcock, Elia Stickel, Blanche Tridle in a community notice detailing residents or students connected to the local school.
Records show the intermediate room has 4 male students and 11 female students enrolled. Withdrawals total 3. Tardiness time lost reaches 55 minutes while absences sum to 47 days. Average daily attendance is 22 with an overall attendance rate of 90 percent.
The article lists students by class year who earned special mention for their consistent attendance. Names include Edward Hay first year and Edward Wilson among others across years up to eleventh, with multiple students named per year such as Hazel McKrill Ruth Armey and Ethel Yates in the third year.
The list includes Hugh Snyder in the fourth year Floyd Henderson fifth year Fern Armey Clara Frantz Harry Laney Edith Wilson Bernard Votter sixth year Foster Miller Coral Tillman Charles Price Union Oldfather Harvie Holderman as students recognized for academic achievement.
Number of pupils enrolled: males 14 and females 18. Time lost by tardiness 68 minutes and by absence 12 days. Average daily attendance 28.
A new bank named Kosciusko County Bank will begin operations in Warsaw on May 15 with a capital stock of 75000 pounds. M A Wilcox serves as president.
During April Indiana added forty five rural mail carriers bringing totals to 622. Carrier numbers rose from 472 in January to 568 in February and 577 in March. On March 1 the postmaster general raised rural carrier salaries to 600 dollars yearly. February saw many failures to perform service due to weather and road conditions, leading the department to deduct pay for each day of nonperformance.
Bargain 300 acres suitable for stock raising with year round water and an orchard. Includes a 7 room house and bank barn, four miles south of Silver Lake. Price 36 dollars per acre. Inquire Joan H. Frory at North Manchester Indiana or Rex phone 43.
An exchange laments young men wasting earnings on dress and folly while elders saved, contrasting past frugality with present excess. Artist Verestehagan returns to Washington from Cuba after surveying landscapes for battle scenes and setting up an open air studio at Fort Myer to study cavalrymen and rations with official verification.
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